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Spinal intradural extramedullary cavernous hemangioma

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Spinal intradural extramedullary cavernous hemangiomas are very rare. Mixed intensities on T1- andT2-weighted images due to repeated hemorrhages and poor to absent contrast-enhancement are the most common imaging features of the disease allowing accurate differentiation from the far more frequent meningiomas and schwannomas of similar location.

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  1. Cliniques Universitaires Saintt-Luc (UCLouvain), Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Philippe Pétillon, Guido Wilms & Thierry Duprez

  2. Department of Radiology, UZLeuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Guido Wilms

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Christian Raftopoulos

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Pétillon, P., Wilms, G., Raftopoulos, C. et al. Spinal intradural extramedullary cavernous hemangioma. Neuroradiology 60, 1085–1087 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-018-2073-6

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